How very nice to read about this meeting of two kindred forumers. I hope you enjoyed agreeing and agreeing to disagree about those films and music. Looks like you had a pleasant time in beautiful Stockholm.

A provisional albums list. 1991 was a groundbreaking year for grunge (obvs). Nirvana led the way with their raw grunge, and Pearl Jam followed closely behind with their less raw, more classic rock take on it. Moving on to other genres, although it didn’t appeal to me at first, by now I can really he...

I’m posting a provisional top 20 songs. (DaveC, I’ll let you know if and when I make any changes to this list.) There were discussions in the 1990 poll about why many people seem to post their lists so early in the month rather than exploring other people’s lists and waiting until the end of the mon...

These polls about female artists really are all kinds of wonderful to me. It's the most intrigued I've felt about forum polls/games in years. You're doing a stellar job, BleuPanda. And to avoid making similar posts where I'd just be repeating myself, I'd also like to thank DaveC and notbrianeno for ...

Also, "John Wayne Gacy Jr" took one hell of a tumble...I remember when it landed at 7 last time, it was quite an accomplishment (if I remember correctly, Henrik had a dream where Sufjan told him it would end up at #7 or in the top ten...) Sadly, this time Henrik had a nightmare where Sufj...

Phew! I feel quite a lot of emotions right now (sadness, nostalgia, gratitude - to name a few) but most of all I feel a sense of relief, Henrik. I'm pleased that you have made this decision for the sake of your well-being. There is so much kindness, love and strength in you, and (as you have started...

Top 15 albums in progress Top 15 albums pretty much decided I'll submit final albums and songs lists before the deadline, notbrianeno. Thanks, Dan / Why Don't More People Get Benjamin Clementine and Curtis Harding / So Pleased to See Laura Marling and Natalia Lafourcade Doing Quite Well So Far / Wh...

Updated with the results for "Ten" (with an excellent participation even during Christmas week) and two other albums after I came back from my trip to Britain. I enjoyed a lot the New Year's Eve in Edinburgh with events as impressive as the Torchlight Procession and as fun as the Street P...

I added Partner's "Play the Field" to the list of 2017 songs. Thanks for the recommendation, DocBrown! I also decided to add all of the 2017 songs to the opening thread instead of just a few of them. Why not.

5. The War on Drugs - Holding On 2 | The War on Drugs | Holding On You guys both put this song at a super high spot on your lists in this thread, so consider this a friendly request to please vote in the now open 2017 AM EOY poll so that we may rocket this song to the list's upper echelon. I'm afra...

I posted an albums list a few days ago, and my main criteria was that the vocals on an album should clearly be predominantly delivered by a woman (or women). That's why I included A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records and excluded Silent Shout Aren’t all the vocals on Silent Shout delivered...

This news affected me more than I thought it would. I'm going to be honest and say that I haven't listened to the Cranberries for many years now, but as a hormonal 14-year-old they were one of my favourite bands and I shouted along to "Zombie" basically every day when I came back from scho...

:greetings-waveyellow: With the aim of adding songs from 2017 to the opening post of this thread, I listened to a lot of music by LGBT artists (and non-LGBT artists with LGBT themes in their songs). I usually only include 5 or so songs per year, but 2017 turned out to be an interesting year for LGBT...

I posted an albums list a few days ago, and my main criteria was that the vocals on an album should clearly be predominantly delivered by a woman (or women). That's why I included A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records and excluded Rumours , Silent Shout and the debut by The xx - all of which...

90 albums below. Ran out of listening time to decide on the next 10 to take my list up to 100. It's nearly 2am here in the UK. Honorio and his wife are visiting and will be arriving in about 8 hours from now. :happy-partydance: Better get some sleep. :shock: 1 | ... 90 | Edit: Updated list in this p...

It was difficult for me to choose between option 2 and 3, but I eventually decided on option 3. Like every other year, this year I relied on critics' lists (and reviews and ratings from major music publications/sites) for recommendations about what to listen to. I can't say that I'm loving much of w...

This is my top 15 at the moment. I think "Slip Away" is in many ways "Hounds of Love Part 2" and I hope it will become as well-regarded in the future. I don't usually focus too much on production, but I think the production on that song is amazing. And thank you The War on Drugs ...

Below are the albums that will likely make my top 15 of 2017. I've added a link to a song that appears on each album. For the first time since I started compiling year-end lists (which is...hmmm... quite a few years ago now) I don't really know in which order they will end up (for now, they are in a...

No worries, Honorio! :D This week’s conflict would have been (well now it’s a fact, after all) with Dan. Sleigh Bells is definitely my #16. Makes my ears bleed, ha ha. And it’s up against my nomination, nonetheless! When you used the plural “friends” and not just the singular “friend” I suspected t...

I’m arriving a bit late for the party (people are already talking about this week’s album of the week by Lindi Ortega) but hopefully everyone hasn’t left yet. As always, it’s a pleasure to read a review of yours, Moonbeam – I find it especially interesting to read about what excites you when you lis...

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Putting together this list while spending time with hundreds of female-fronted songs that I love has been an incredibly rewarding experience. All of the songs are predominantly sung by women. I decided to exclude duets as that feels like a different category to me, but I did include songs that featu...

On a side note - there were three albums in the tournament this year that I wanted to call out as excellent discoveries for me personally: Comus - First Utterance, Fishmans - Long Season, and Barbara - Barbara chante Barbara . Thanks to Bang Jan, EmilienDelRey and Dan for these nominations! :greeti...

Thanks very much for this, notbrianeno (and Sweepstakes Ron and babydoll). So much work and effort have clearly gone into this, and it’s much appreciated. It all looks very good! What I’m most pleased about is the improved performance of albums that are not sung in English. Having said that, I do fe...

Like bonnielaurel, I will interpret the title of this thread differently and post a list of my all-time favourite Eurovision songs. Here in the UK, people view Eurovision as a bit of a joke and don't take it seriously. I used to laugh (and sneer) at it myself. But over the past few years I've come t...

I expect that Dan (from South Africa)... didn't vote Dan lives in the UK now I did vote, and yes, I selected the UK & Ireland option. I grew up in South Africa but have lived most of my adult life in the UK and I'm a British citizen now (which may or may not mean shit when freakin' Brexit final...

Ah, so these demographics polls are confirmation that the young Americans are taking over the forum? If I were born two months earlier, I would've had to select the 1970s option, but I was born in February 1980 so I'm a child of the 80s. We've played the "what song was number one on your date o...

I listened to these 16 songs twice today, trying to keep an open mind throughout. In the end I realised that I tended to favour songs from the albums I treasure the most (and therefore listen to the most). I guess it's only human nature to prefer songs you're more familiar with over songs that might...

Greetings from Stockholm! It's the last day of my visit to Henrik. We're about to go for a walk (and a barbecue) in a forest. But before we do that, we thought we'd continue the tradition of these Forum meet-ups by posting an album cover. We went to the ABBA museum a couple of days ago, which result...